 Author |
 Post
|
 |
|
Liam Patuzzi
Joined: Oct 12, 2010
Posts: 3 (view all)
Poster Rank:
Tongue-tied
User is
Offline
Age: 25
Country: Germany
Province/State: Nordrhein-Westfalen
City: Bonn
|
UNV: questions on Volunteerism, Conflict Prevention and Recovery
October 12, 2010 - 11:57 AM
|
|
Hello!
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) is currently working on the United Nations first State of the World's Volunteerism Report (SWVR), to be launched on 5 December 2011 (International Volunteer Day). The aim of the report is to help break down stereotype views as to what volunteerism is and what it brings and thus ensure that its potential contribution to addressing some of the major challenges of peace and development faced today is maximized.
Volunteerism plays an important role in preventing conflicts from arising, in facilitating their resolution, and in building enduring peace in post-conflict situations. Volunteers in conflict regions can help create confidence, promote the rule of law, enable and monitor democratic processes, provide humanitarian assistance, and mediate between parties.
We invite you to contribute your thoughts and experiences by answering the following questions:
- Please describe any examples you are aware of where volunteerism is having an impact on conflict prevention, resolution, and peacekeeping. In your view, does volunteerism bring a unique “value added” compared to full-time paid staff? As far as formal volunteers are concerned, and given the dangers involved in high-conflict settings, how should volunteers be selected and prepared? What difficulties do you think they could encounter?
- It seems that one of the major risks for volunteers in conflict situations is being unwittingly enmeshed (or perceived as enmeshed) in the hostility. In your opinion, and how can neutrality be preserved? Please provide examples, if you are aware of any.
- Do you think civic engagement and volunteerism can be important in preventing conflict from arising within society? And do you see any forms of volunteerism as possibly exacerbating conflicts? Please provide examples, if you are aware of any.
Your contribution will be highly valued and appreciated
|
|
back to top |
link to this post
|
|
Robert Dold
Joined: May 11, 2003
Posts: 276 (view all)
Poster Rank:
Blabbermouth
User is
Offline
Gender & Age: Male, 47
Country: United States
Province/State: Texas
City: Seguin
|
Re: UNV: questions on Volunteerism, Conflict Prevention and Recovery
October 13, 2010 - 05:15 AM
|
|
Liam Patuzzi:
In no way am I saying you are STUPID.
Even with what I just wrote stating the word "Stupid", the stereotype will
never go away as that becomes the focus which at any time may be taken in
the wrong way. What did I just do? Did I offer a compliment? How will you get
past the word STUPID once you have seen the word? Is there a way to keep
people focused past certain words with negative or incorrect stereotypes as
association? What responsibility would I have in a conflict situation if I
where a "Volunteer" as if that word solves anything at all.
Placing a blue cap or yellow wristband as if to say don't shoot or I am the
nice person, me, I am "NEUTRAL!!!" Yeah. Sure. No one is neutral behind others
they are with. When people are within other people all the people are within
one fluid situation. This goes for the people in the media who too are people
within conflicts as they place themselves into the conflicts with no way out at the time...
|
|
back to top |
link to this post
|
|
Robert Dold
Joined: May 11, 2003
Posts: 276 (view all)
Poster Rank:
Blabbermouth
User is
Offline
Gender & Age: Male, 47
Country: United States
Province/State: Texas
City: Seguin
|
Re: UNV: questions on Volunteerism, Conflict Prevention and Recovery
October 13, 2010 - 05:16 AM
|
|
.....
The United Nations has never worked anything out for anyone. The conflicts
continue. The only mediation is what is paid to allow a false peace to exist
among animosity. The animosity among nations that leads to world conflicts
which call for the World to attempt a resolution without a clear solution
is always a situation that is too late and the bartering game of diplomacy
begins either as what people will accept as momentary payment, turf, etc...
or the game of war is started and played where the stakes grow larger like a
poker game within gridlock of a chess game that the world is locked within
until the most basic communication starts to relieve tensions or everyone dies.
The World is at War. Always has been. Real men called pacifists have come
and are quickly shot dead when they speak of the unrealistic peace which
comes at the price of someone not getting all they want, need, or ask for like
a terrorist's demands. The U.N. is a terrorist organization without
recognizing that they use the wrong words as if solving something. By changing
the words from Peace keeper to Volunteerism right past volunteers who are
expected to walk into situations as if neutrality and peace will just happen.
Walking around like sitting ducks to draw out the enemy as if any enemy is STUPID.
If the U.N. truly wished to become a force without force and seen as
neutral there would need to be clear rules for the organization. Rules seen
as CLEAR by the World. Terrorists like the U.S. would have to accept that
Terrorists any where else in the world are of Human Intellect and are just
playing the human games such as war.
Animosity is the rule of ruling Countries within Animalistic Humanimal
Societies built on self-preservation which are as people against the World.
The U.N. would have to clean house. Setting up a group of people as apart
from the world's delegates who have an agenda and are pre-positioned with
closed minds. The floor of the U.N. is used as the bartering floor where people
sort out who gets what and how. These new people as a Jury would defend a
Human Individual Rights Act that would be needed as written clearly for all
of Humanity so that when a "Volunteer" was viewed as being "Neutral" the
World would see the person as neutral as possible. I see a "Volunteer" as
a person who needs to be backed up by the World and not by those who now
control the Puppets within the U.N. which is seen more as a money laundering
operation with thieves now called by a different name...
Robert Dold. U.S.A. From the land of the Terrorists who are as free as I!
Where freedom rains down as oppression towards people who are unable to
stop the U.S.A. from taking others resources.
|
|
back to top |
link to this post
|
|
Robert Dold
Joined: May 11, 2003
Posts: 276 (view all)
Poster Rank:
Blabbermouth
User is
Offline
Gender & Age: Male, 47
Country: United States
Province/State: Texas
City: Seguin
|
Re: UNV: questions on Volunteerism, Conflict Prevention and Recovery
October 13, 2010 - 05:17 AM
|
|
...
"Stereotype views" are learned through the news.
The "Major challenges of Peace"? are created from "Views". There has
never been any "Peace" possible when those who say Peace from presidential
palaces and places never say Please and only know how to say "Please to
Please Me" as you better "I DO". Agreement with Countries who fail to
agree through direct sight of MIGHT continues into a future's fight.
The U.N. is not a separate entity from the World, World Business, and the
World's Business. The U.N. is seen through the World's Business every day
on the "News". The U.N. stands for NOTHING from the way they are shown
through the news and reviews. What makes the U.N. of any value when the
people at the top of the U.N. stop only for pictures? With no time to say
anything of truth about all of humanity as if the people were human within
the U.N. and seeing ALL others as valueable. If everyone was included by the
U.N.. If the U.N. had the outcasts in view. Hated by the world but accepted
as humans by the U.N.. A mission for humanity through humility to leave
NO ONE BEHIND!!! The U.N. needs a complete new voice past the stereotypes
which have been forged in the past. Not a new word to advocate for neutrality.
"NEUTRAL". The U.N. should be the LAST NEUTRAL VOICE!!! For those with
no choice that take up weapons as boys! And are then EXPECTED to Fight
with less than a chance against larger enemies while being expected to be
proper! and poised! How very prudent and prophetic are the people in
suits who send volunteers into conflicts dressed as lambs among human who
must resort to doing as they must... Who could they trust? The U.N. Sure...
The U.N. is such a Joke and the Joke as such becomes clear to all the
"Who Volunteer" when the volunteers are truly trying to make a difference
but from a world's perspective any pawn is used in the World's War Chess Fame...
Just one more person to frame by the publics opinionators.
|
|
back to top |
link to this post
|
|
Shweta
Joined: May 20, 2006
Posts: 234 (view all)
Poster Rank:
Chatterbox
User is
Offline
Gender & Age: Female, 32
Country: India
Province/State: Delhi
City: Delhi
|
Re: UNV: questions on Volunteerism, Conflict Prevention and Recovery
October 16, 2010 - 08:52 AM
|
|
I believe that volunteers do "value-add". I also believe that volunteerism is very much alive in the world though we find less and less of it now.
I find that life of an International UNV is quite different from a national working as a volunteer in his/her own country. The I-UNV is obviously much more respected and gets a much better compensation for his/her efforts.
As far as role of volunteers in peace and conflict is concerned, I think anyone working in peace and conflict has a tough job to do, considering that practical difficulties of being mistrusted by others. Whoever works anywhere, whether in conflict zones or not, needs to understand that building trust can take a long time. I agree that just because one is a volunteer, one will not be consiered neutral but community. As a volunteer and as a professional, one has to be cautious of not behaving like 'i know everything' or 'i know better'.
|
|
back to top |
link to this post
|
|
Robert Dold
Joined: May 11, 2003
Posts: 276 (view all)
Poster Rank:
Blabbermouth
User is
Offline
Gender & Age: Male, 47
Country: United States
Province/State: Texas
City: Seguin
|
Re: UNV: questions on Volunteerism, Conflict Prevention and Recovery
October 16, 2010 - 10:50 AM
|
|
All people who volunteer have the ability to be valuable. There are those as the whole U.S. military who have volunteered and see themselves as peace keeping while doing so by killing.
People who volunteer of their time and do so in a humanitarian way are of the very best and kind people in the world. Of that there is argument. The problem from this thread's intention does not come from those who volunteer but from the problems with which volunteers as humanitarian relief are seen by the world within conflicts as mistrust has lead to launching of a report aimed at breaking down stereotypes. That a report must me made is the evidence against evident information which leads people in conflict see volunteers as part of Armed forces who too claim to be peace keepers while... Oops. More civilian "CASUAL" T's.
When bullets fly and humanitarians or media are... Oops. "CASUAL" while being filled with volunteer bullets and then the media is then sent in to save the day by being "HUMAN!" No. Talking and taking pictures for the public outcry to kill MORE of those terrorists by those who really are the "TERRORIST!"... Oops. I mean the Volunteers of the U.S. Armed destruction machine.
There are many organizations in the U.S. and abroad that USE people who do willingly and freely volunteer as Angels towards others as people helping people but that does not make the organizations themselves of a humanitarian nature. Volunteers are then fully involved in the wars of an eye for a thousand eyes as the U.S. leads the killing fields which leave more need of humanitarian relief and more "CASUAL" is the media while giving tribute to the dead and sending Terrorist who are themselves lied to into believing they are Lambs with a Trigger to pull for humanities solutions as people HELP!!! Please HELP ME!!! are the cries in the night thick with blood... Good Job U.N. Surly...
I feel bad for those who think they are neutral as they are the best people in the world sent and set amongst the wolves who also say "We Volunteer!" to do the DIRTY WORK!!!
|
|
back to top |
link to this post
|
|
Robert Dold
Joined: May 11, 2003
Posts: 276 (view all)
Poster Rank:
Blabbermouth
User is
Offline
Gender & Age: Male, 47
Country: United States
Province/State: Texas
City: Seguin
|
Re: UNV: questions on Volunteerism, Conflict Prevention and Recovery
October 16, 2010 - 11:20 AM
|
|
Shweta, HI!
I will give you an easy way to see what I was trying to point out in an analytical way. This is just a simplified example:
I say there are terrorists in India. So I go and will test everyone to check for terrorists. A terrorist will obviously resist and someone who needs my help there will call me a savior and humanitarian.
So. I will start at your house. I go and weapons drawn break down your door and if you show fear you might be a terrorist so fearing myself for my own life I make you get on the ground to disadvantage you and I pull you out of your house along with your family. I must protect others in your area from you and the best way is to make full well and sure you are not a terrorist so I shoot you in the foot... But don't worry as there is a wonderful friend of mine with me who is a neutral volunteer who is willing to but a band aid and stop the bleeding... back to my job as you scream mad things at me in a language I don't speak so I put a bullet in your child's leg to shut you up as I have a serious job to do searching for you if you are the terrorist. BUT! Don't worry as the volunteer doctor will be nice to your child and give him a lolly pop and morphine and stop the bleeding. Now where is your husband? Was he the one that ran out the door and was shot from our fear that he was attacking... Oops. "CASUAL" T... do you understand me? while I read from a book of translation which I must as I don't speak your language... "CASUAL" as I must be as I am a volunteer and am helping you out... BUT! don't worry I am here to save the day as you will be free... in the democracy!!! I bring directly to you. Tell me please where are the terrorists. Give me the names of your family and friends that I may go to make peace with them too...
BUT! don't war with me...
|
|
back to top |
link to this post
|
|
|
Display posts from:
|
